Yang Huanning: Recognizing the Situation Clearly, Raising Cognition and Efforts to Do a Good Job in the Protection of the Occupational Health Rights

On November 10, the national occupational health supervision work conference was held in Wuhan, Hubei. Secretary of the Party Group and Secretary General Yang Huoning of the State Administration of Safety Supervision emphasized at the meeting that it is necessary to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang’s instructions on safety production and the spirit of the national health and public health conference, and earnestly implement the Central Government’s reform and development in the area of ​​safety production. The work of the deployment, deepen the reform and innovation of occupational health work, improve the responsibility system and laws and regulations standards system, strengthen supervision and law enforcement, continue to promote special governance and infrastructure, and strive to improve the level of occupational health supervision, and effectively protect the occupational health rights and interests of workers.

Yang Huanning pointed out that occupational health concerns the people’s vital interests and the happiness and well-being of thousands of families. It is an important part of the progress of social civilization and the building of a well-to-do society. To do a good job in occupational health is an inevitable requirement for the nature and fundamental purpose of our party. It is an important measure to achieve the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and it is an urgent need to solve the current and future prominent problems in production safety. Since the adjustment of duties and responsibilities for occupational health supervision, the safety supervision departments at all levels have made great efforts to overcome difficulties, pioneered and innovated, promoted active progress in occupational health, established an occupational health supervision system, gradually improved laws, regulations and standards systems, and continuously strengthened supervision and law enforcement. Large, special treatment has achieved initial results, public education and training continue to deepen, and occupational health work continues to develop. At the same time, we must be clear-headed to see that there are obvious deficiencies in ideological understanding, institutional mechanisms, and supervision and law enforcement in occupational health work. We are faced with many contradictions and problems, identify new “starting lines”, target prominent issues, and strengthen the targeting of various work measures. Sexuality, effectiveness, and continuous improvement of occupational health work ability and level.

Yang Huanning emphasized that to do a good job of occupational health, we must first solve the problem of understanding, we must profoundly understand the importance and urgency of occupational health work, comply with the overall situation of economic and social development and the development and deployment of safe production, and define the overall thinking and basics of occupational health work. Principles, persist in seeking truth and being pragmatic, persist in highlighting key points, adhere to the principle of treating both the root causes and problems, insist on reform and innovation, uphold the concept of serving the people wholeheartedly and the people-centered development concept, and conscientiously grasp occupational health with high political awareness and strong responsibilities. Regulatory work.

Yang Huanning demanded that we must adhere to the "management of occupational health must be safe production," establish and improve the responsibility system for occupational health work, strengthen the main corporate responsibility, clear and implement the duties of occupational health supervision, strengthen the management responsibility of the region to prevent the emergence of regulatory blind spots. We must vigorously advance the construction of occupational health and the rule of law, accelerate the improvement of laws and standards, and actively promote the integration of safety production and occupational health supervision and law enforcement. We must focus on dust hazards, mines, chemicals, metallurgy, and building materials, and strengthen daily supervision and specialization. Governance, severe punishment of various types of illegal activities in accordance with the law. We must deepen reforms and innovations in occupational health supervision, strengthen source control, implement hierarchical classification supervision, and accelerate the establishment of a socialized service system. We must continue to consolidate the foundation of occupational health work, conduct in-depth surveys of occupational disease hazards, comprehensively grasp occupational health dynamics information, strengthen supervision and management team building, accelerate scientific and technological and informatization construction, and establish support mechanisms for medium and small-sized enterprises. We must do a good job in occupational health education and training, promote occupational health knowledge in enterprises, schools, communities, rural areas, and families, and increase the awareness and ability of the whole society, especially migrant workers, to prevent and treat occupational diseases.

Li Zhaoqian, deputy director of the State Security Supervision Bureau, presided over the meeting. Xu Kezhen, vice governor of Hubei Province attended the meeting and delivered a speech. At the meeting, Hubei, Beijing, Chongqing, Shandong, and Gansu Provinces (City) Safety Supervision Bureau and Henan Coal Supervision Bureau made typical statements. Various provincial safety supervision bureaus, coal mine safety supervision bureaus, the State Administration of Safety Supervision and the relevant departments of the State Coal Mine Safety Supervision Bureau, and some directly-affiliated institutions and community organizations responsible comrades attended the meeting.